The Invaders

Rough n’ wild funk jam loaded with insane psychedelic effects – all the way from sunny Bermuda!
Two instrumental funk masterpieces taken from the mega rare LP by The Invaders, now reissued in collaboration with Now-Again Records.

‘𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙊𝙪𝙩’ 𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙛𝙪𝙣𝙠 𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙥𝙞𝙚𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙪𝙙𝙖 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟬, 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙣 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙮 𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙗𝙮 𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙠, 𝙛𝙪𝙣𝙠, 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙞𝙥 𝙝𝙤𝙥 𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨 – 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙙 – 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙨.

It lays out the band’s funk bonafides: a relentlessly tight conga-filled groove, the punchy wall of intertwined horn leads, and raucous unintelligible background vocals adding extra mystique. Above all was the exaggerated deployment of reverb and echo (a decision most of the group’s members credit to recording engineer Ian Marshall) which ricocheted off and reanimated every lick as an otherworldly transmission, infusing a vibe both earthy and interstellar.
On the flip we find ‘Latin Lips’ a heavy funk cut with a jazzier vibe, also taken from the mega rare LP by The Invaders.